A farmer was killed by a landmine on the Kurdistan Region’s border with Iran on Friday.
The landmine exploded at around 9 in the morning near Kodo Mountain in the Haji Omran area of Erbil province. The victim was a 28-year-old farmer who was working in the area when the mine exploded, according to Abdulwahab Mahmood, the mayor of Haji Omran.
Mahmood told Rudaw that the mine was Italian-made. Italian landmines, primarily the Valmara 69, were widely used in the border areas during the eight year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
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Source: RUDAW News